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Posted by: Eagle_Eye 2 years, 7 months agoThe environment, and the movement that grew up to protect it, is under attack-concerted and purposeful. Yet the need for solutions to pressing environmental problems grows more urgent each day. share your story read stories Teresa Heinz Kerry and John Kerry describe how these issues unite people across ideological, geographic, and cultural lin
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Eagle_Eye
March 27, 2007, 1:37 p.m.It seems that John Kerry has taken a lesson from Al Gore in realizing that the environment is a worth while thing.
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lfergie812
March 27, 2007, 1:51 p.m.I watched Kerry last night on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart having fun with him. Funny.
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puffin
March 27, 2007, 1:56 p.m."Both John and Teresa have been long-time leaders in the battle to save the Earth's environment."
Lol, oh really?
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not2needy
March 27, 2007, 2:09 p.m.Thanks EE, You are on a roll now!
Whether it's due to human interference or if it's just the normal evolution of the earth, anything we can do to preserve our environment is worth the effort.
For people to just sit complacently and avow that there is nothing that we are doing that is harming the environment, therefore there is nothing we can do to stop the natural course of the earth's changes is out of my realm of understanding.
But of course the fact that Kerry had something to say on the issue will become the focal point for many on this, SAD!
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Eagle_Eye
March 27, 2007, 2:31 p.m.I hope that Kerry, if he stays the course, will unite with Al Gore, together they would do well uniting the effort.
At some point you have to come together to make a difference.
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amazed
March 27, 2007, 3:20 p.m.I agree that the environment should be a concern to all. But to say, "now more than ever....". If you look around, things have been cleaned up considerably since I was a kid. The air is cleaner, the rivers are cleaner (often just plain clean) the great lakes have been cleaned up, Long Island Sound is now clean.
Great improvements have been made since the first Earth Day in 1970, but too here many of these environmental advocates tell it, you would think that we are stewing in more filth than ever.
When was the last time you heard of a river catching on fire?
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eugenegerard
March 27, 2007, 5:16 p.m.The Bush administration has done its best to dismantle regulatory effects in every level of government. It is going to take years to fix the damage these plunderers have done. They've got corporate shills in every niche of enforcement. Their only concern is for big business not to be responsible for anything but making money.
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simonsez
March 27, 2007, 6:12 p.m.An overly dramatic title, but of course it is John Kerry promoting John Kerry.
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CovalentBond
March 27, 2007, 11:04 p.m.You know I don't buy man caused global warming. I think it is a natural cycle that like all natural cycles should not be interfered with.
However with the N.Y.Times hit piece on Al Gore soft though it was, some interesting reading in the paper over the weekend. Regarding some countries staking claims over thawing islands in the north. It was an AP story titled: As ice melts, Arctic land disputes come to a boil. It's a long and interesting read.
((The U. S. Geological Survey estimates the arctic has as much as 25 percent of the worlds undiscovered oil and gas.))
My take is as India, China, and other countries modernize there is a profit to be made. Selling oil.
I personally believe the man caused global warming theory is about to become road kill. It's in the way.
I don't believe in conspiracy theories. But good old fashioned greed, well you figure it out.
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ETproductions
March 28, 2007, 2:03 a.m.The question isn't really about any one person and whether you personally like them or not. The question is, are we able to burn over 7 trillion tons of fossil fuels a year, destroy the remaining rain forests with slash-and-burn farming techniques, over-fish the oceans and constantly encroach on wildlife habitat without any adverse impact to us.
By now, the answer is a pretty obvious NO! And shooting the messenger won't change that one bit,
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Amazing1
March 28, 2007, 9:57 a.m.The more people concerned with the environment the better. Clean air and water are never bad things. Whatever the reason for the release of this book, I do like that it points out the efforts of a disparate group of people from many parts of the earth.
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4cprocess
March 28, 2007, 10:53 a.m.I may be off base here but what I see and read between the muttled lines here is this...
If the Kerry's want to do something positive for the environment, and I mean really "do" something, then provide or make this book available online. That's what really gets me so ******ed about these so called environmentalist! If they only knew the amount of natural resources that it takes to "print" a book and not only that it's also the amount of man made chemicals involved int the production also. Such as inks, toner, plates (must be produced with vigin aluminum), glues, plastics, solvents ect.
Oh but then they would have nothing to sell. Anyone ever thought that maybe money might come into play here?
In God We Trust
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4cprocess
March 28, 2007, 11:13 a.m.I've been in the printing industry (once the world's #6 industry) for over 30 yrs. My grandfather started a printing company during the depression so I have grown up around it. I have seen many changes over the years as far as "responsible environmental stewardship" goes such as recycling and such. But a lot still hasn't changed except that most of this industry is going overseas because there are less restrictive environmental laws and with the advent of computers and the internet this once great industry has fallen to somewhere in the 20-25th ranking among industry as a whole.
The one thing that has troubled me the worst throughout all this latest (technological advance) is that with the digital revolution I have witnessed the greatest wake of hardware disposal (old computers, monitors, analog equipment, scanners, cameras ect.) than I can recall since my childhood. The main reason being....
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4cprocess
March 28, 2007, 11:13 a.m.cont.
GREED. Pure and simple. Software manufacturers constantly upgrading software. Computer manufacturers constantly upgrading computers and so on and so forth. And I not just talking in terms of years but only months. So if anyone here want's to support true environmentalism then push all the "book" promoters to go digital. This may mean the end of my own livelihood but I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is. Are they?
In God We Trust
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